To reinforce my tradition of not placing importance of one film over another in each category, I decided to alphabetize the lists this year.
- Top 10 Films of 2008 (in Alphabetical Order):
- Bottom 4 films of 2008:
- Best Remake/Reworking: Be Kind Rewind
- Most Unnecessary Remake/Reworking: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) - I admittedly haven't seen it, but that's just because I consider it to be so unnecessary...
- Best Director: Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight
- Best Actress: Kate Winslet in The Reader
- Best Actor: Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
- Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams in Doubt
- Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
- Best Ensemble: Doubt
- Best Original Screenplay: In Bruges
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Frost/Nixon
- Best Cinematography: Milk
- Best Soundtrack: Slumdog Millionaire
- Most Alarming Cinematic Trend: Repeating last year, "Remakes going 3 or 4 levels deep..."
- Most Memorable Lines:
- Let the Right One In:
- Oskar: How old are you?
- Eli: Twelve... more or less.
- Eli: What about you?
- Oskar: Twelve years, eight months and nine days. What do you mean, "more or less"?
- Oskar: When's your birthday?
- Eli: I don't know.
- Oskar: How old are you?
- The Dark Knight:
- Salvatore Maroni: From one professional to another, if you're trying to scare somebody, pick a better spot. From this height, the fall wouldn't kill me.
- Batman: I'm counting on it.
- Salvatore Maroni: From one professional to another, if you're trying to scare somebody, pick a better spot. From this height, the fall wouldn't kill me.
- Let the Right One In:
- Best Documentary (tie):
- Least shitty Darren Aronofsky film of all time: The Wrestler
- Best use of Special Effects in a lame movie: Speed Racer
- Best Interviews in a Documentary: Encounters at the End of the World
- Films I feel guilty for missing:
- Films I don't feel guilty for missing:
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I see what you did there.